Mothers, transexuals allowed to compete in Miss Spain pageant
The Miss Spain beauty contest changed its rules to allow transsexuals and mothers to compete.
“Of course, their morphology must match their civil status,”
the pageant organizer said.
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The move comes after the contest’s decision to dethrone a 22-year-old beauty queen in February when it emerged she had a young son sparked criticism of the pageant’s organizers from the press and the government.
Anna Bustillo, who won the title of Miss Cantabria, a region in northern Spain, in January making her eligible to go on for Miss Spain, said she was being discriminated against because fathers could compete for Mister Spain.
Pageant organizers justified their rules at the time, arguing that fathers, unlike mothers, “do not undergo substantial physical changes that would impede them from carrying out duties such as travel and taking part in parades that are required of pageant winners.”
They decided to change the rules as well to allow transsexuals to compete in both the Miss and Mister Spain contest in the wake of a new law which came into effect in March that allows transsexuals to change their name and official gender without the need for a surgical operation.
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